Cris, aged 12, and her older brother are left at the side of the road by their parents. Very quickly the punishment turns into an even greater challenge. “They`ll Come Back” follows Cris as she attempts to find her way back home. It is a journey through a series of different realities, guided by the people that inhabit them. A modern day fable, filled with realistic overtones, and the story of Cris`s self-discovery.

Rio de Janeiro, 2011. Announced worldwide as the main scenario of Brazilian social problems, Rio slums were consolidated as one of the most visited spots in the city, producing not only a redesign in the traditional tourist routes, but a significant change in the memories the tourists bring home. Along Favela da Rocinha tours, the documentary explores the desires and images involved in the construction of this disputed tourist destination. A market that demands attention,and never ceases to project its new attractions.

Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a reencounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.

Street Aperana 52 is a landscape, long lasting music. Montage of photos taken between 1909 and 1955. And of films made between 1957 and 2005, 14 films. Adherence to the ground, topology of a small corner in Rio de Janeiro. A street name evocative, Aperana (false path, provisional way, in Tupi language) reveals heterogeneous times in a deep hereditary memory mounting unprecedented.

A legend tells that Zvončari scared away invading Tatars or Turks. According to the legend the shepherds put masks on their heads, belted on bells, and produced a deafening noise that scared the enemy away.

Otto is a film that accompanies the process of pregnancy of my wife and the birth of my son. Instinctive and visceral as a gesture. Intimate and confident as a filmed diary. A celebration to life, a film of love.

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a abandoned building in Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas Gods. Bit by bit, they spread their dance throughout the city.

São Paulo. Current Days.Brazil is going through economical growth. COLORS is a story of friendship and delusion among three young friends in a big metropolis.Their lives are defined by an ordinary routine where the only option is to give in to the alienation impregnated by a consumerist society, and where the lack of perspective prevails.

LACUNA (GAP)
Dir. André Lavaquial
73min . digital . 2012 . RJ
The glaciers in Antarctica walk toward us three millimeters per year. Calculate when they will arrive. Predict, in a film, what will happen.

Dir. Petra Costa
82min . 35mm. 2012 . SP
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27:

João Luiz Vieira, Professor on the Department of Film and Video of Universidade Federal Fluminense, talks to
André Lavaquial, director of Gap
Lorena Ortiz, director of Masks
Petra Costa, director of Elena

19h | CINEMA 1

NÃO ESTAMOS SONHANDO (WE ARE NOT DREAMING)
Dir. Luiz Pretti
12min . digital . 2012 . CE/MG
Yes, we will build a world. We are not dreaming. Fight by fight we will, piece by piece we will, bit by bit we will. We are not dreaming.

DOMÉSTICA (HOUSEMAIDS)
Dir. Gabriel Mascaro
76min . digital . 2012 . PE
Seven adolescents take on the mission of filming, for one week, their family´s housemaids and hand over the footage to the director to make a film. The images that confront us uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.

Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family’s past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria’s apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen.

Dir. Felipe David Rodrigues
92mim. digital . 2012 . RJ
Two days in the life of André Provisório; who makes his living as a private detective, delaler and shameless seductive. Between these jobs, he meets Mariana; an aspiring experimental hack theater actress.

Cuauhtémoc (born c. 1495 — died Feb. 26, 1522) Last Aztec emperor, nephew and son-in-law of Montezuma II. He became emperor on the death of Montezuma’s successor in 1520, while Hernán Cortés was marching for the second time on Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital. He defended the city during a four-month siege that left most buildings destroyed and few Indians surviving. Tortured by the Spaniards in an effort to make him reveal the location of hidden Aztec wealth, his stoicism became legendary. Later Cortés, hearing of a plot against the Spaniards, had Cuauhtémoc hanged..

NA CARNE E NA ALMA (FLESH AND SOUL)Dir. Alberto Salvá
81min . digital . 2011. RJ
Rodrigo makes casual sex, with any woman who crosses his way. In college, Rodrigo meets Mariana. For his surprise – and basically through the sex they experience – Rodrigo falls in love for the first time. It is the story of a difficult rite of passage from the fresh youth to mature life.

A considerable part of the history of cinema has passed by through this screen, but at each screening it goes as if it was still virgin, before the beginning of all. The blank screen is an immense abyss made out of oblivion.

A few years after undergoing a deep personal tragedy, Dora and her daughter manage to restore some kind of normality back to their lives. It’s December. In a small coastal town, the clowns and musicians taking part in the Three Kings Nights’ festivities are dancing on the streets. The heat and the holidays make it a perfect time for a swim in the area’s green waters. But for Dora, going to the beach means an encounter with her son Lucas, whose ashes were scattered in the sea.An unexpected arrival will shake their routine. From this crisis arises the possibility of healing